Shoppers in a Chinese department store have been injured by an exploding shark tank, which spewed water, glass and sharks onto hapless shoppers, injuring over a dozen onlookers and staff.

The huge 7m by 3m aquarium was the first floor showpiece of a classy Shanghai department store, and housed 3 sharks.

The aquarium’s sides were some 10cm thick, but this did not stop an entire side of the tank from suddenly rupturing and spilling glass, water and sharks over the store and even the street outside the premises.

15 people were injured in the incident, with at least one person suffering broken bones, and 3 sharks in the tank at the time died.

The sharks were popular and some locals have been lamenting their loss, though with the amount of water and glass involved there has been relief at the lack of fatalities amongst humans as well.

Just what caused the failure of the aquarium is not known, although with the unforgiving weight of water involved problems with the quality of the tank structure or materials are suspected.

Despite the size of the aquarium, the sharks were tiddlers – thankfully preventing another unfortunate China quality legend from being born:

can we stop with the exploding things in china?? the only reason why they are exploding is because people are sharing these things online, which roots others to cause these explosions to happen, just for the laughs…

all I read was “China Menanced By Exploding Shark” And before I even clicked to read the article… I had lost all hope for China.. I have regained some hope when i noticed the full title was “China Menanced By Exploding Shark Tank.” But seriously… an exploding shark.. eh?

The Japanese with their tunnel incident pretty amusing, but stupid things like that rarely happen in Japan. All country have their own share of bad weird incident.

But what so special about Chinese, is it always manage to deliver a WTF incident and accident into a whole new level, like making a bridge out of garbage, or oil out of sewage, soy out of human hair, and things explode on regular basis. They make an unthinkable things become true.

Most people all over the world is shocked, truly shocked to read and know the “creativity” of Chinese. That is why China get a lot of heat in Sankaku Complex.

To be fair, aquariums hold back a lot of pressure, and enormous ones have a ridiculous amount to withhold. A decent engineer should have the formulas to get it right, but it’s also wise to overdesign things by a certain safe margin, and I’m thinking some corners were cut.

Still… huge aquarium exploding? Not that surprising compared to some stories I’ve heard from China.

I feel like no one taught this Chinese generation how to build things properly, which is why you see stuff like this like happening. Without proper guidance, shit will get build shitty, and then nothing works right and everything explodes.

Nobody taught anyone that either, it’s something other nations learned in the course of industrial development. It’s just in China everything is built as fast and as cheap as possible, and you see the ensuing results.